<div dir="ltr">Bernie is correct. "City of", "Municipality of", "x County" is a legal name that would be referring to the legal entity itself (the Government) rather than the place. The place should just be Toronto, Hamilton, Mississauga etc..<div><br></div><div>The data source these legal names comes from has the legal name as it's usually establishing the jurisdiction that contains the road. The address ranges are derived from the road system, so it's just been copied over.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">-Kevin Farrugia<br><a href="mailto:kevinfarrugia@gmail.com" target="_blank">kevinfarrugia@gmail.com</a></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 12 February 2018 at 21:02, Bernie Connors <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bernie.connors@unb.ca" target="_blank">bernie.connors@unb.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">I see the use of "City of" as indicating the official name of a municipality as it is defined in legislation. Here in New Brunswick the Municipalities Act defines the official names of municipalities. Some opt to use "City of ", "Town of ", etc in the Municipalities Act and some don't. But when it comes to names on maps we should be more concerned with toponyms and not official names. The use of</span>
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">"City of ", "Town of ", etc</span> is very rare in toponyms. Here is a query on the Canadian Geographic Names Database searching for the term "of" in the "populated places" category - <a href="http://www4.rncan.gc.ca/search-place-names/search?q=of&theme%5B%5D=985&category=O" target="_blank">http://www4.rncan.gc.ca/<wbr>search-place-names/search?q=<wbr>of&theme%5B%5D=985&category=O</a><br><div><br></div><div>I only see two examples that include <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">"City of ", "Town of ", etc across the entire country:</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">City of Brant, ON</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Village of Queen Charlotte, BC</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Bernie.</span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 7:45 PM, OSM Volunteer stevea <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steveaOSM@softworkers.com" target="_blank">steveaOSM@softworkers.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I smell a harmonization with admin_level...not that there's anything wrong with that.<br>
<div class="m_-1432544470856275438HOEnZb"><div class="m_-1432544470856275438h5">SteveA<br>
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